“So law trumps the entities social and philosophical policies?”
Our social policies are reinforced by laws and our only way of getting them in the way we want is by hiring (voting in) the candidates that believe as we do and will do it for us. And so many have different ideas as to what that is. Each state is it’s own little world as long as it doesn’t go astray of the federal laws. They can add to it, but they can’t directly conflict it. That can start civil wars like when California was talking about succeeding from the union a few years ago. They can’t by law. And our Constitution has it’s own system of law and people hired to determine it, SCOTUS.
Philosophy is defined as the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience. It is only a thought, not a practice as you’re back to the only practice being the law it pertains to. That is the only reality our society is represented by, right or wrong.
Look at capital punishment. You may not agree with euthanizing a criminal because of the thing or things he/she did. But the law exists. And in many states now it has been repealed. But it still exists in twenty-nine states. And for those that approve of it, it only exists in twenty-nine. If a person feels strongly enough about it, then they can live in the states that approve the way they want or campaign to get it changed.
This incident is a carbon copy of the ones concerning a religious based business not wanting to violate their beliefs by, one instance, not making a cake for a homosexual wedding. They didn’t win that argument. None of the arguments that compromised the law have been won. Our sales, our places of worship, and about any act we do in the world is governed by someone and something. The way to fix it is not to punish, but to get it changed to what the people want...by law. And voting in the right people does that. Ignoring or violating the law, doesn’t get it changed. And depending on the severity of the violation, can only create trouble not assistance. And firing a doctor for considering a legal act, that would have to be approved by the patient, is not the way to get it done. It conflicts the law and the doctor’s privileges in his practice. The only rights are those that God gives. Everything else is a privilege determined by law.
Sorry for the length. A lot is in this topic.
rwood
thank you for your thoughtful well reasoned reply.